China at the Heart of Kew's 30th Orchid Festival
TL;DR
China is the focus of Kew Gardens' 30th orchid festival, with the Princess of Wales Conservatory transformed into Chinese landscape-inspired displays and plant art, including a dragon made from lotus seed heads and koi sculptures from ginkgo leaves. The show features over 6,500 orchids arranged by nearly 100 staff and volunteers, with many specimens sourced from the Netherlands, and includes a cave-installation highlighting China's biodiversity and conservation work, plus Zheng Bo's Orchids Return to the Sea, underscoring Kew's collaboration with Chinese institutions and links to traditional Chinese medicine research.
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